Evergreen Md, CO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
About Evergreen Md
Evergreen Md serves about 15,750 people through 4,403 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Jefferson County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0130030; phone on file: 303-674-4112. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Evergreen Md is 15 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (2 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 ppb |
| 2021 | 6 ppb |
| 2020 | 5 ppb |
| 2019 | 7 ppb |
| 2018 | 4 ppb |
| 2017 | 14 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 15 ppb over 10 |
How Evergreen Md compares
Of the 1,025 Colorado systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 2 are over 15 ppb right now and 71 have gone over at some point. Evergreen Md's 6 ppb sits at the 95th percentile in Colorado and the 93rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Jefferson County
50 other systems share Jefferson County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Evergreen Md. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Arvada City Of | 171,610 | 3.1 ppb |
| Consolidated Mutual Maple Grove | 81,400 | 3.7 ppb |
| Green Mountain Wsd | 49,400 | - |
| Bancroft Clover Wsd | 44,000 | - |
| Golden City Of | 38,288 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bear Creek Wsd | 30,000 | - |
| Wheat Ridge Water District | 20,000 | - |
| Ken Caryl Wsd | 12,000 | - |
| Lakehurst Wsd | 12,000 | - |
| North Table Mountain Wsd | 10,000 | 1.3 ppb |
Next steps for Evergreen, CO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Evergreen, CO may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Evergreen Md whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.